A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

issue shall be tried, in the usual way, by a jury
then and there to be empanneled, and either party,
except as to mere valuation, shall be entitled to
to appeal within sixty days after such decision,
upon any exceptions that may be taken to the
opinions or directions of the court in matters of
law, and such appeal shall be heard and deter-
mined at the term of the Court of Appeals then
next succeeding such appeal; and the amount that
may be fixed by the jury in case there be no ap-

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peal, or in case the decision below shall be affirmed,
shall be final and conclusive; provided, that no
corporation shall be entitled to have a day ap-
pointed for the hearing of said petition, unless the
said corporation shall either deposit, as the said
court may direct, such sum of money as the said
County Commissioners or said Appeal Tax Court
may claim as properly demandable, or file a bond
with sureties, to be approved by said court, in dou-
ble the amount of the money claimed by said
County Commissioners or said Appeal Tax Court
as properly demandable, conditioned for the pay-
ment of sucb amount as may be adjudged to be
properly demandable from said corporation.

Proviso.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

In force.

CHAPTER 266.

AN ACT to release from the payment of interest
the sureties on the official bond of David Barry,
former Collector of taxes for the third collection
district of Prince George's county in the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight and eighteen
hundred and fifty-nine.

Passed Mar.
10, 1864.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the sureties on the official bond
of David Barry, Collector of State Taxes for Prince
George's county for the years eighteen hundred

Sureties re-
leased.